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last. The Prosecutor depos'd, It was Lump-Sugar, and was taken out of the Shop about Ten a-Clock at Night, and the Prisoner being pursued, dropp'd the Sugar. The Prisoner pleaded, that as he was going along, the Sugar was thrown out of a Window, and like to have fallen
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